[SOLVED] Basic JSP question..

[casid]

Hey guys,

I have JCalendarButton in jcalendarbutton.jar file. I like to add it to my jsp page. is it possible.

in general could you pls tell me how add awt components in JSP.
do we have to call them by reference name or id?


thanks.

[travishein]

its not directly possible to have AWT components on their own, inside a JSP page.

[casid]

what is the alternative way to do it? do I have chance to do it with servlet ?

[travishein]

it should be possible to do a calendar with a servlet, but just servlet on its own would cause the page to submit and refresh with every user interaction with it right. Maybe a pop up window then, but that uses javascript. And on that note, having a calendar choose widget in javascript would allow for a kind of dynamic HTML feature, improving the user experience (and possibly simplifying the operation by not requiring to pass all form parameters into the servlet for each calendar click operation).

I would recommend to try to find an existing Javascript calendar chooser API.

[casid]

yeah actually after all attempts I decided to use javascript calendar, it looks more useful than servlet, refreshing page each time.
thank you for your support and suggestions.